The New York-based Satanic Temple wants to place a shrine to Satan next to a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The offer comes four years after Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled legislature approved the privately funded, biblically based monument, which was placed on the Capitol’s lawn last summer. Meanwhile, the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union believes the Ten Commandments monument is unconstitutional and has filed a lawsuit seeking its removal.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to rule on the element of Obamacare that pro-life Americans find most objectionable: The contraceptive mandate. Under the healthcare law, businesses must provide health insurance plans for employees that include coverage of contraceptives, including abortifacients like Plan B and Ella. The case involves fundamental questions of religious liberty and may set an important precedent for how the government handles religious protections.

In Pakistan, authorities recently arrested three Muslims on charges of forcible conversion to Islam. Boota Masih, a Christian, said a man “bluntly asked me to convert to Islam,” issued threats, and pistol-whipped him and his nephews when they refused, the Morning Star News reported Oct. 24. The next day, attackers fired guns at Masih’s house. Masih and his family were not home.

The entire Air Force Academy class of 2014 attended a “religious respect training” earlier this month as part of the Academy’s efforts to continue what it calls a “strengthening of religious liberty.”

The training was presented in 36 simultaneous squadron-level classes taught by Air Officers Commanding (AOC), leaders of the cadet squadrons. 

Hawaii atheists have accused five island churches of intentionally filing false paperwork to pay less for the schools they rent from the state’s Department of Education (DOE).

Those involved, though, are questioning the atheists’ motives: Could the legal attack be tied to the churches’ outspoken support for biblical marriage?

The U.S. Army last week acknowledged that a diversity training presented to soldiers at Camp Shelby, Miss., mischaracterized the American Family Association (AFA) as a “hate group.”

An Oct. 15 email sent by an official Army spokesman to the AFA stated that the slide presentation referencing the AFA as a hate group “was not produced by the Army and does not reflect our policy or doctrine.” 

A Malaysian appeals court upheld last week a government ban on the use of the word “Allah” to refer to God in non-Muslim faiths, overruling claims by Christians in the Muslim-majority nation that the restriction violates their religious rights.